Rice Bowl Festival with lion dance. Victoria Chinese Public School (1939) ...

• Main Author: Ko, Mathew, 1909-2000
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Victoria Libraries 2021
• Subjects: History; Coastwise shipping; War work; Equipment and supplies; Princess Kathleen Steamship; World War 1939-1945; British Columbia > Victoria > Chinatown; Amateur films; Steamboat lines; White Sea; Canada; British Columbia; Steamboat; Mathew; Kathleen
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.58066/mas0-9039; http://vault.library.uvic.ca/concern/generic_works/9c134afa-3ff8-4538-ba79-daab062bd8f6

One of a series of amateur motion picture films by Mathew Ko. Shot during a protest through Chinatown and downtown Victoria, B.C., and a Rice Bowl fundraising event for the war effort in 1939. Black and white: sea plane marked CF-AWE, dignitaries leaving the plane with procession and driving through downtown passing Quonley storefront sign [corner of Government and Fisgard] and Safeway sign. Colour: flatbed truck loaded with scrap metal. Protest, children holding signs reading “For peace, support embargo!” “Chinese Youth Forum protest this shipment of scrap iron to Japan,” and “We protest scrap iron shipment to kill women and children,” with others holding signs saying “For humanity, for world peace, stop scrap iron from Canada,” and more. Close view of piles of scrap iron with workers taking a break, protestors marching, close view of police, teenagers entering cars, people walking through Chinatown and Government street with signs, building number 572 Man Yen Law in background. This protest was against ...